Blackwater Now in The 'Private Intelligence' Business: Scahill

Originally posted by marg6043
reply to post by The Specialist

 

Any entities or group that is payed by tax payer money their business Is everybody business. That goes for politicians also.

That's exactly the problem I have with Blackwater, Total Intelligence Solutions, all of this is that this is tax-payer money, and NO accountability to us as citizens through the G.A.O., or Government Accountability Office.

By the Pentagon, Deparment of Defense, and whoever else in the military going through a surrogate means to have a Private Military Contractor, like Blackwater, Triple Canopy, Dyn Corp, Kroll, any of the other ones as well, it bypasses the entire investigational arm of the Congressional Government Accountability Office which is allowed to audit, evaluate, and investigate to call into question any monetary discrepancies on the books.

This is what Congress is allowed to do to keep things in check, you remember what we were taught in school, "checks and balances",like is supposed to be with the three branches of Government, in order to keep one arm abusing the public, something Congress has yet to act upon in regards to President Bush and Vice-President Cheney and their complicit and tacit lies in order to get us embroiled in war in Iraq.

Unless of course, Congress is in on this scam as well, at the tax-payers expense, as it well could be, since it seems inept and slow to move against the war-crimes and war-profiteering that has taken place so far at us, the tax-payers expense.

This means that Blackwater, Triple Canopy, Dyn Corp may possibly be acting in tandem with Congress in collusion with Bush and Cheney, towards de-stabilizing American economy, so it make one wonder what else the Government is up to.

Just for future clarification, all of this is inter-related to the topic at hand, if I need to break it down more, I will.



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This is an interesting news story where protestors got arrested outside Blackwater property a year ago, and as you can see from the story, since it's private property, there's no recourse to protest on their property. I wouldn't protest on their property though, and not with re-enaction the Fallujah incident.

Seven Protesters Arrested at Blackwater’s Headquarters

There are facts in Jeremy Scahill's book that lead you to understand there's a lot more to this story than just an ambush though. Coffer Black is mentioned in the Blackwater book Scahill wrote as well, but it's like he has mentioned them less than the rest of Blackwater's actions, like maybe there will be a second book at another time.

I've got the Blackwater thread I have in the signature below up to over 11,100 views now since I began it with 11 pages, which is awesome, let's see if we can get this news Breaking Alternative News thread that much interest.

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Just an FYI for all interested parties, I've been adding different links from ATS to the Blackwater thread I did, and then coming back and posting about it in the original thread, to add to both perspectives. This would be so more people can read about the various concerns and perspectives through ATS, not just one view over another, therefore giving many different perspectives a chance to sort out the details and for everyone to make their own choices and decisions based on the facts.

Is The D.E.A. Contracting Blackwater?

This is all inter-related which is why I've done this, it's not just one or the other, it's all of the above when it comes to these organizations. Did you know that Blackwater is not only funded by the Department of Defense but as well by the C.I.A.?

[edit on 4-8-2008 by SpartanKingLeonidas]

I went delving on YouTube tonight, punched in "Coffer Black" in the search field, and found this interesting Keith Olbermann video from MSNBC. Interesting to say the least.



Does this mean the Main Stream Media is trying to stop this, or are they only perpetuating the cycle through throwing us the occasional bone?

PROMIS Software : C.I.A.


If this is software the C.I.A. has had for the better part of four decades, why weren't they able to spot trends towards the September 11th attacks?

Was Robert Hansen's spying on America for the Russian's this catastrophic?

Anyone who has seen the movie "Breach" knows that Robert Hansen was the F.B.I.'s biggest mole.


[edit on 5-8-2008 by SpartanKingLeonidas]

I think we're going to be seeing these asshats (blackwater) on USA city streets more and more in the future unless people rise up and let it be known that we are not going to stand for this #!

Screw all of this Homeland Security Bull#.!!!

reply to post by SpartanKingLeonidas


And that is something that has gotten in the minds of the American public, we has been drilled to accept that when it comes to our corporate ridden government the own no apologies to the citizens that once they used to serve.

You are right is not accountability, from all the allegations of abuse in Iraq against the populationis not charges or arrest against them.

Blackwater is a corporate run militia pay by tax payer money, this guns for hired will have the same oversight and protection pay by tax payer money to work against American citizens in our nation.

Their job to protect corporate america.

This people are a government on itself, no even their death tool in Iraq is even exposed to the media and the public.

So we for what I know could be paying with our tax payer money the services of the death.

They are immune as grated in 2004 so their atrocities are kept out of site and out mind and only those that are exposed is what we get to learn about from this mercenaries for hired pay with tax payer money.

Another slap on the faces of the American people.





[edit on 5-8-2008 by marg6043]

reply to post by marg6043
First thing that I want to say is that I was trying to edit my post but I guess I waited to long.I made a mistake and realized (not that it is important) that the one guy I know is a special operations dude and not blackwater and the other guy is getting out of blackwater because he just doesn't want to do it anymore.But my comment was directed to the guy that said he could prove he knew people in blackwater and I just thought that was ridiculous and is why I was trying to make that point more so.I never said whether it was our business or not.I just know that these two guys that do special operations don't want there face and names posted on an internet forum.I also will say as much as that the cia is funded by our government unless you know something I don't and there are allot of things that are not our business like spy's identities,there missions,ect.... Just because taxpayers pay doesn't mean that you have the right to know everything - im sure you agree with that and isn't what you meant though................

reply to post by The Specialist


That is what I am getting on, we have our own special operations people that belong to already established agencies.

But when it comes to blackwater they have carte Blanche to their desires.

Is two faces of blackwater, the ones that is sold to us as the "benevolent private (pay by tax payer) agency protecting haliburton and others and the dirty nasty and dark side that does the dirty jobs that "others" do not want to do (still pay with tax payer money) and their missions are in behave of their private corporate interest.

That is has nothing to do with the safety of the American people, so our tax payer money should not be used to finance their corporate agendas.

This thread is from 2006 and exposed them pretty good,

www.abovetopsecret.com...

thinkprogress.org...





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